Posts in category 'Books'

Natasha Ngan, author of Girls of Paper and Fire, talks about the power of words and how writing helped her release unspoken and repressed truths. Writing Your Truth, Even if it Hurts Words, we know by now, are powerful. They have the ability to …

Wiffle Lever to Full!is the hilarious and affectionate sci-fi memoir by Bob Fisher which explores the strange world of sci-fi, cult TV and film conventions, from Doctor Who to Star Wars via the weird world of Red Dwarf! We asked Bob to tell us what inspired him to write the book and to explain the meaning behind his intriguing title . . .
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Light Years is the first book in a thrilling new sci-fi series by Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series. It follows a group of teenage cadets who attend an interstellar military academy in a galaxy far away. From very different planets and …

Today, we are thrilled to reveal the cover for a fabulous new addition to the Hodderscape family (and your TBRs!) –Emily Eternal by M. G. Wheaton.
Preorder iton Waterstones/Amazon/The Book Depository or add it to your to-read shelf on Goodreads now!
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Yes, you heard that right! By now I’m sure you’ve seen (and lusted after) the beautiful blues and greens of the stunning galaxy inspired cover for Becky Chambers’ new novel Record of a Spaceborn Few. Well, prepare to get even more excited, because today we’re announcing the Spaceborn Few SPECIAL FIRST EDITION!
And don’t forget – when we say first edition only, we mean it! Once they’re gone, they’re gone, so you should probably preorder your signed edition before they sell out!
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Hibernation is over. Jasper Fforde is back with a new novel set in a world where every Winter, the human population goes into hibernation, protected by
an elite corps of Winter Consuls. For five months a year, they are the law. But Winter is a lawless place…
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It would be misleading to say that my new novel, Claudia, is a dystopia – most of it isn’t, though some of it is – but while I was working on the book I found myself reading heavily in the genre, which has always been a favourite of mine. Mind you, dystopia is probably a favourite genre of nearly everyone’s these days (have you seen these days?), and so it’s slightly dismaying that even now we tend to get the same familiar titles cropping up in lists of recommended dystopic reading. Here, then, I have assembled five literary counterworlds that I want to assure you are absolutely fantastic while perhaps being not quite so grindingly obvious as your Nineteen Eighty-Fours, your Brave New Worlds, even (post-Emmys) your Handmaid’s Tales. See what you think…
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Dive into the PINspiration behind Leife Shallcross’ THE BEAST’S HEART, the ‘utterly enchanting’ (Kate Forsyth) retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the Beast’s point of view, publishing 3rd May 2018.
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There are a lot of series out there that I wish I could go back in time and read again for the first time. Since I don’t have a time machine*, the second best thing I can do is recommend these wonderful books to new people and share the joy.
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